On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjones@redhat.com wrote:
Unfortunately NetworkManager can't handle brief network outages without dropping the connection (RHBZ#1022954 comment 3). This isn't desirable for servers that have ethernet and fixed IP addresses.
NetworkManager-config-server fixes this, it sets: ignore-carrier=*
See https://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2013-June/msg00159.html